I don't know about you guys, but I've been oscillating between extreme feelings of hope and soaring pride for everyone involved in this movement and a real anger. I am walking around with some deep anger from seeing innocent people get beat up and maced, angry at being thrown in jail, pissed off at the constant intimidation and fear lurking on our backs. The lack of sleep and minimal food and water consumption don't help either. When I come home at night, trying to digest the day, I feel like a crazy person.

That being said I know I bring this stuff to the table everywhere I go. So I am constantly trying to check in with myself and not let my ego spin out in reaction to the extremeness of my feelings. I'm trying everyday to channel my anger in productive ways. Sometimes I am better at this then others. Judging from the different emails that have been going around lately I'm gonna guess this resonates with most of you too.

The division in the media group has to be resolved. I feel like we are starting to turn our frustrations in on each other. We have to join forces otherwise we will just wind up destroying ourselves. If we can't sort this out in the Media group, which is ultimately is just a drop in the bucket of the bigger picture, the entire movement doesn't stand a chance. We have to be better to each other, get on the same team and tighten our junk up…

Really looking forward to tonights meeting. I hope we can get some resolve and move forward. I am so proud of each and every one of you.

In solidarity.

L

On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Hank Testor wrote:

it is my understanding that thorin is the self-described leader of
the other media group, "his" group has been getting money from shady
people while offering no transparency, they operate hierarchically ,
and have been rogue from the beginning and not participating in any
media meetings or working with the GA. it is said that thorin will
also not renounce himself as "leader" because it will compromise the
content of his channel. now, i think we are all fighting the same
fight but if any one of these is true then we have a big problem
that needs to be addressed asap. i would like to bring both media
teams together at the 5pm media meeting today and figure out
what exactly is going on.

On 10/17/11 10:27 PM, Nicholas Isabella wrote:

Sorry I'm still a little confused.I think everyone in the
media team is amazing at what they do and I am happy to be a
part of this with an awesome bunch of people. I am the
weatherman in the group and use my knowledge to the best of my
ability to let you guys know when the rain will come and other
weather issues. Besides that I have helped out other people with
other media issues. I have gotten on global revolutions live
stream with a weather report and recently I've done the same
with thorins and have helped him set it up a bit as well. I just
am unclear how the media team as a whole views thorins channel.
I do not want to be distanced from the rest of the media group
by doing a weather report or something similar with thorins
channel. I want to continue to work with all of you great
people. Maybe someone can clear it up for me.

I'm sorry I think you should talk to Thorin before telling
this to people cos is not true that channel represent only his
views since there's a lot of people that livestream also with
that channel like dwayne, hero or me since the very first
day....

I spoke to some people on thorins team today and
encouraged them to have a meeting and discuss the
hiarchy issue. I think what will happen is that either
that group adapts the same principles or a number of
people working with him will be joining us in the near
future.

we should definitely have a meeting about this-
thorin has been on the agenda for many days, he
and his livestream channel are hierarchal and
represent only his views which to this point have
been privately funded. he isn't a part of this
media committee formally, and has claimed not to
be responsible to the general assembly, this
precludes him from general assembly funding- his
channel merely benefits from having a user name
which implicates being a part of the working
group. his stream unfortunately does not conform
to any of the principles set out but the
livestream subcommitee- which to this point have
been posted to this google group. we will finish
up our livestream primer and faq and have it
posted as soon as possible. we would like very
much for this issue to reach some sort of
resolution.

I'm confused to. We should have a meeting
about this. I'm not sure who is doing what
now.

On Oct 17, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Nicholas
Isabella wrote:

> What do you mean not part of the
GA? I'm a little confused
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 17:35, Lauri
Faggioni <lfaggioni@me.com>
wrote:
>
>> Hey Abe,
>>
>> Thorin, isn't with us for live
stream. He is his own entity and does
not operate under the GA. So I'm not
sure we should be sending people to him.
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:01 PM,
Abraham Heisler wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We had a meeting today and
Jazcer took minutes. He will type them
and
>>> hopefully post them
tonight. There were a lot of new faces,
so we just
>>> introduced them to what was
going on with media and asked them to
>>> speak to David about
photography, Thorin about Livestream,
and myself
>>> for edited content (OCCCUPY
TVNY). There was no one there for radio.
>>>
>>> The issue of security and
clearance came up and I suggested that
we
>>> discuss it with the general
group at tomorrow's 5PM meeting.
>>>
>>> I think that Tuesday and
Thursday's 5PM meetings should be for
>>> everyone in media to meet
and decimate information. Important
internal
>>> issues should be brought up
and discussed then and we should urge
>>> newcomers not to attend as
they may feel a little lost. The 11AM
>>> meetings should be for new
people to come and get plugged in. We
can
>>> discuss more tomorrow, but
those are my thoughts on how not to
scare
>>> new people away.
>>>
>>> -Abe
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.AbrahamHeisler.com
>>> www.vimeo.com/heisler
>>> www.imdb.me/heisler
>>> www.newdawnlab.com
>>